Given the recent trials and tribulations involving Los Alamos County Council and the high turnover rate of the county administrator's post, do you think we should elect a mayor and hire a county manager?

What are your thoughts about creating salaried, fulltime county council positions?

Just a note of interest... Coach Garry Maskaly opted not to attend a mandatory volleyball meeting of the committee that selects the North/South team. Chase Ealey was chosen but none of the required paperwork had been turned in by her coach, again Maskaly. Other varsity coaches on the committee have verbalized their support and disappointment for her. The team was in Albuquerque for state and the meeting was held during down time for the teams, five plus hours... No phone calls or emails to the coach have been returned, it appears he is in England. College team scouts these games, just saying. We may have had more team members nominated but we will never know, the coach never showed...

I'm curious as to the Monitor's interest in highlighting the Police Beat by publishing photos of some people who are arrested and not others, and actually publishing them at all. Sure there's a clause that states that just because your photo or name are in the Police Beat, that doesn't mean you're guilty...but it sure taints the reader towards judging the people in there. Just like the same statement says use of the word "arrest" doesn't necessarily mean what most people and dictionaries think it means

I find the article on the Drug Trafficking arrests misleading with the inclusion of the specific charges and mug shots. Two of the people weren't charged with anything having to do with drugs, according to the charges. To include their information in this article is, in my opinion, misleading and unfair to them. Unless people carefully read the charges associated with each person carefully, they will be lumped in with those who did have drug-related charges. That's a very sad thing, and it gives me pause to think once again, that the Monitor is interested in sensationalism and that information published is misleading. I understand readership has declined...please be more responsible in your reporting. Ruining reputations in a small town as ours by including this misleading information is inexcusable.

“An Ebola Vaccine Would Likely Have Been Found By Now If Not For Budget Cuts: NIH Director” (add name and source). All factions of the Grand Old Party preach about balanced budgets, cutting taxes, trickle-down economy, and support of war and the defense budget. It is a national shame that almost the only recent instance when both parties voted together was their recent support of the War Against the Islamic State (IS). They deny or reduce funds for social programs and anything that helps the 99%. The following is excerpted from an SFNM/ABQJ article:

“Recently, the chair of the Economics Department at the University of Missouri, cited an illuminating quote from a Federal Reserve document that rings quite differently from the prattle we hear incessantly from politicians and undiscriminating media: